For IIS7 remote adminstration, it is necessary to be an admin?

I'd like to allow one of our developers the ability to remotely administer IIS7 on our Windows 2008 box using the IIS manager. This is not to manage an individual site, but IIS in general.

I can connect to it remotely if I log in with a domain admin account, but I can't otherwise get this to work.

Is remote IIS admin is only possible with a local or domain admin account? If not, what is the least amount of privileges required for remote admin?

Thanks.

Solution 1:

The easiest way would be to make the user a local admin on that server.

Also, this link describes using the Metabase Explorer tool to grant rights to all of IIS without Admin rights to the server at large